Graphophone.



H. C. MOYER.

GRAPHOPHONE.

APPLICATIONVF-ILED AUG-H. 19x5.

rammed Sept. 24,1918.

2 SHEETSSHEET I.

H. C. MOYER.

GRAPHOPHONE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-H. I915.

1,279,743. 1 PatentedSept. 24,1918

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nonncnc. mourns, or OAK PARK, ILLINo'is, 'a's'srsiion 'ziio esswmnseass m e which the instrument is disposedand. in the; lower of which the disks or records are hi h that it was not convenientl accessible COMPANY, or CHICAGO, rrLnvorsja conro'nn'r oixr dr' rrininois.

GRABHIOPHGNEQ,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, HORACE. C. MQYER, a resident of Oak Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Grapho-.

phones, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description. H 1

l The invention relates to graphophones In graphophones in which the horn 1s disposed in a case or cabinet, it has heretofore been the practice to provide a cabinet With superposed compartments, in the upper of stored". In these cabinets, as a result of the nvertical arrangement of these compartments,-

the top oft-he machine was necessarily so.

for placement and removal ofth'e records,

and it Was necessary for a person to stoop v in removing the record from the lower compartment for placement on theinstrument inthe upper pOItiOD of the case. This movement of the body, necessary in shifting the disks from the instrument-to the storage compartment or vice versa, was inconvenient and resulted, unless extreme car Wasused,

in marring therecord disks. Another dis advantage was that the disks could not be conveniently stored so they would he individually and collectively accessible.

One-object of the invention' is toover-j' come these objections inherent in grapho phones now in general use. In attaining this-object of the invention,

the instrument and the rack for holding the records are disposed in compartments arranged side by side in acab net mounted upon legs to 'bring'thenppe'r portion of the Specification of Lette sr t ena' Application filed August 11 1915.; Serial no. 514,877. Ll.

Fig. 1.7

'edto containa rackffor' the record disks. 1 (lompartment 17 has a' fi'xed Wall 19,-and a 'fiXed,rear v'v'alll 2Q; A transverse bottom bar 23 is fixed to walls 19 and-Q'Oand'is disposed above-the bottom 7 to hold thef disks to strips 24 and 25 to hold the dividing gsibleyso that cabinet at the correct elevation for conven- .=ee ie e-ae ventipnwj Fig. 2lisa sectiontaken on line 22 of Fig. 1.1. Fig, .3- is a plan the lid being shown intheopen, and in section. Fig; 4, is a;horizontal sectionfltaken oirlineA- l of .The body of the cabinet comprisesfa fixed bottom 7, usually. formed of Wood and mounted upon legsS, fixed. side-Walls? and 10,.a back 11, a. front-:12, and'fixed upright members or corner postsil8lwhich may be "integral'with the legs, 'A- fixed bar-21 extends-across bothcompartments adjacent the top and front 'of the body. [At the rear, a.

fixed 'gtop -bar 22 extends between the rear' posts 18.'. A 'transversepartition leis fixed in the body and divides thewlatten into a chamber 15 at one lsidethereof adapted to 'contain the talking-machine'aw and a compartment 17 at the other side thereof adapte'levatedl Vertically-grooved strips 24; and

25 are secured to side 9 and partition 14, re-

spectively, and longitudinal. division, strips 26 are 'slidably held in vertical: grooyes formed in strips 24: and 25.to- :E0rm.a rack in compartment 17 adapted-to holdia large numberoff disks inivertical positioriqand so that the upper portions-of the di sks'will be i i-separated relation' 'Stopsf27 are secured strips 26 in-Lgrooves 28, "It wi-ll {be observed that when the disks "are" held in therack, as indicated by dotted *lines in Fig.-,-1, the-upper portions thereof will be separated .jandaccesleach diskcanfbe a conveniently handled.

side strips 32 and a front strip 33 adapted to rest on the top of the body, and forms acover for all of the contents of the cabinet. By forming these strips on the lid, the 100 upper portions of the disks in compartment 17 and the sound box of the instrument 16 will be conveniently and access'ibly disposed at the top of the body of the cabinet when the lid is open. f

The frame 35' of the instrument 16 is removably mounted upon a bracket 37 secured to partition 14, and a bracket 38 secured to the side wall 10 and front bar 21.

The motor 39 for the machine may be of 110 A lid 30 is hinged to bar 22, as at 31, has

45 tively.

is secured to a vertical shaft 44 which is mounted in a step bearin 45 on the bottom 7 and a bearing 47 of racket 38. This pivotal mountfor the horn and sound-box permits the needle on the latter to move re- 10 sponsively to the record on the disk. A

crank 46 extends through the side-wall 9 and may be connected to the motor 39 in manner well understood in the art.'

The front of compartment is open for 15 the escape of sound from the horn. A.

frame 48, on which network of ratan or other suitable material is secured, is provided with tongues 50 which are slidably held in vertical grooves 51 in the front uprights 18 of the cabinet, to permit the sound to escape from compartment 15 and to serve as a guard for the front of the compartment. The frame 48 is extended across the entire front of the cabinet. The tongues 50 and grooves 51 extend to the upper ends of posts 18,- so that when the lid has been lifted, the frame can be lifted out of the grooves to give convenient access to the instrument in the chamber 15 whenever repair 30 or lubrication of the instrument becomes necessary. An angular strip 60 rests upon bracket 37 and a stop 61, to close the space between the frame and partition 14 and the front of compartment15. This strip is 85 removable to provide 'access to the side of the frame. The space at the other side of the frame 35 is closed by an angular strip 63 which rests upon bracket 38. These angular strips rest upon their supports and 40 can be readily removed when access to the ,frame 35 is desired.

The back 11 of the cabinet is provided with tongues 11, fitting in grooves 18 and 18 formed in the rear uprights 18, respec- This back wall fits between the bottom 7 and bar 22 and is formed so that by moving it endwise a short distance to withdraw the tongue 11 from oove 18, it may be swung rearwardly sufliciently to clear the 60 post in whichthe groove is formed and then withdrawn longitudinally from the groove 18". This back is removable to pro vide access to the rear of the compartment 15.

The invention thus exemplifies an in? proved graphophone, in which the sound in strument and the rack for the record disks are disposed side by side in a cabinet. As a result of this construction, when the lid 30 is lifted, a record may be transferred with facility from the rack to the rotatable carrier 40 of the instrument and vice versa, and this transfer may be made with facility and without danger of marring the records. The recordsare disposed Where they are conveniently accessible forindividual handling and in close relation to the instrument and provision is made for inspection'and access to substantially all portions of the instrument when repair or inspection become necessary. In practice, the height of the lid is about the same as an ordinary table, and when the instrument is not in use, the lid may be utilized as a table or support, and as a result of its being extended over both compartments, its area issufficient for that purpose.

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the details set forth, since these may bemodified within the scope of the appended claim, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Hay zing thus describedthe invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pa-tent, is:

A graphophone cabinet comprising the combination of a body having an open top, means to support a sound re roducing instrument in the body and adjacent the top and at one side thereof and a horn in the body and at the same side and below the instrument, means to remov'abl'y'hold record disks in and at the other side of said body and laterally adjacent to the instrument, and means to close the top of said body, adapted to ext'ehd over'the instrument and disks and -operable to render the instrument and disks simultaneously accessible.

' HORACE C. MOYER.

. .Witnesses:

MILDRED STUMPF, KATHARINE GERLZOH. 

